Sara Lee Corporation

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Hugh McColl often says Bank of America never set out to build an art collection. "We just collected banks," the former CEO likes to quip.

But through its many mergers and acquisitions under McColl, the bank has amassed one of the largest corporate collections of art and other treasures associated with such names as Andy Warhol and John Hancock.

Yes, that John Hancock, the one with the artistic signature.

Allen Blevins, a scholarly and mild-mannered bank executive you'd never expect to have a Tut's tomb adventure, oversees Bank of America's cache of valuables. When the bank acquires another, the accountants go to the books;...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Hugh McColl often says Bank of America never set out to build an art collection. "We just collected banks," the former CEO likes to quip. But through its many mergers and acquisitions under McColl, the bank has amassed...